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John's Favorite Quotes

This is a list of some favorite quotes and song lyrics that I have heard through the years.

• Don't Ask Me What I Think Of You, I Might Not Give The Answer That You Want Me To.
  From Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac
• O'zapft ist! (The beer is tapped!)
  Traditional shout as keg of Spaten is tapped, signaling the beginning of Oktoberfest.
• I'm just a guy, trying to get by.
  Dr. Todd Cotter
• You always struggle so hard to do the right thing. Nobody always does the right thing, not even you. Be easy on people when they disappoint you.
  Advice given to Cork O'Connor by Dina Willner in the story Copper River, by William Kent Krueger. It's advice I need to hear occasionally too.
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like cleaning the driveway before it stops snowing.
• I like beer. It makes me a jolly good fellow.
  From I Like Beer by Tom T. Hall
• Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
• Well you know I don't get off on working day after day, I wanna have some fun while I'm here.
  From Party by Boston
• If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
  Dave Barry
• If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, mister you're a better man than I.
  From Livin' On The Edge by Aerosmith
• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
• It's seven o'clock and I wanna rock, want to get a belly full of beer.
  From Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting by Elton John
• I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life.
  God said, No. I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.
• All the science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
  From Rocket Man by Elton John
• We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
• Beer is living proof that God loves us.
  Benjamin Franklin
• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
• There's a man over there. What's his color, I don't care. He's my brother, let us live in peace.
  From Border Song by Elton John
• A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
• In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  Abraham Lincoln
• God sometimes throws us valuable gifts disguised as uncommon and annoying nuisances.
  From The Lance Thrower, by Jack Whyte
• Be a simple kind of man. Be something you love and understand.
  From Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW, what a hell of a ride!"
• It's as if you lose a part of your mind when you have children. They steal it and you never get it back. Sometimes I'm amazed that parents can function at all.
  From The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver
• God never promised days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
• In this world we're livin' in we have our share of sorrow. The answer now is don't give in, aim for a new tomorrow.
  From Livin' After Midnight by Judas Priest
• You may only be one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person
• Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
• Let's raise this...bridge and find some of Ban's beer. In the drinking of fine beer, many weighty problems are easily solved and frequently come to naught.
  Ursus, speaking to Clothar, in The Lance Thrower, by Jack Whyte.
• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
  Dave Barry
• Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
• If you buy a record and it offends you, take the damn thing back and get another one or throw it away. Too many people want the state, the church, their next door neighbor, their mom or whomever to tell them what to do. But that's not the way freedom works.
  Mojo Nixon
• I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.
• It doesn't matter where you go in life, what you do, or how much you have. It's who you have beside you.

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